What is up with start-ups?
We already know how terrible everyone’s favorite ride-sharing service Uber is. From kidnapping women to threatening to dig up dirt on predominantly female journalists, it’s clear that responsibly drunk twenty-somethings who need to get home should instead call up the original ride-sharing service: a taxi. But yet another tech startup has come under fire this week. Online real estate database Zillow has been accused of subjecting female employees to “sexual torture.” A California lawsuit describes plaintiff Rachel Kremer’s experience at Zillow as disturbing and yes, even torturous. According to the lawsuit, Kremer’s male supervisors sent her pictures of their penises, ranked her according to her breast size and demanded sexual favors in order for her employment to continue. Kremer was afraid that if she didn’t comply with their inappropriate advances she would be terminated.
